The robot revolution has long sounded like a far-off sci-fi notion, but it’s a reality at the e-commerce giant.

Amazon will soon have as many robots as humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports. And at this rate, it won't be long until the flesh and blood employees are downright outnumbered.

Amazon now fields more than one million robots in its warehouses and says parity with its human headcount is coming